Art + Design: Graphic Design

Here are some recent purchases related to graphic design!

If you browse the general collection in the following sections, you'll likely run across some useful and interesting books related to graphic design:

3rd Floor:

NC – Drawing. Design. Illustration

                NC 845-915 – Graphic art materials

                NC 997-1003 – Commercial art. Advertising art

                NC 1800-1850 – Posters

                NC 1860-1896 – Greeting cards, postcards, invitations, book jackets, etc.

5th Floor:

Z – Books (General). Writing. Paleography

Z 49-51.5 – Calligraphy. Penmanship

Z 242.9-264.5 – Practical printing (including printing as a business, layout, paper and ink, machinery, type and type founding, electrotyping, desktop publishing, typesetting, presswork)

Click here to get a more thorough description of all the call numbers.

Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).

The first line is read in alphabetical order.

• ex. This would be before the PQ's but after the PM's.

Read the second line in numerical order.

• ex. This would be after PN 6746 and before PN 6747.1 or PN 6748.

The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 would come before PN 6747 .S5, because .5 in decimal is really .500!

Sometimes the fourth line will look like this and you read it exactly like the other line.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 P4713 would come before PN 6747 .S245 P8, because .8 in decimal is really .800!

When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.

• ex. If there was a book just like this except the date was 2003, it would go before the 2007 edition.

You could think of a call number like a detailed address in reverse: planet, country, state, city, street, street number. Each line helps you narrow down the book's exact location!